Throughout my long and somewhat checkered career in the ad biz, I have won my share of awards (he said modestly.) Perhaps the most memorable one being the David Ogilvy Global Award, which came with a $10,000 prize, which I ...
Read More »Would I lie to you? Andys test seven creative directors
The Advertising Club of New York believes in getting in early in the awards season, offering Andy entrants a free next entry if they don’t go on and win another big award later in the year. So it’s enlisted R/GA ...
Read More »The One Show picks its new generation of creative leaders
New York’s The One Club for Creativity, which runs the The One Show and ADC annual awards, has announced its new International Board of directors (ie non-US.). Which gives some idea of the world’s top creatives. All will serve a ...
Read More »Ocean names digital Out of Home award winners
Spark44 and MediaCom won the top prizes in Ocean Outdoor’s annual digital creative competition with Out of Home executions created for Land Rover and the charity Rays of Sunshine respectively. The winners were chosen by a panel of 19 expert ...
Read More »Epica calls out agency excuses in the awards game
Closing date for the Epica Awards is drawing near (in what looks likely to be a highly crowded awards season) and Epica is plugging its point of difference, the awards are judged by (supposedly impartial) journalists (not us BTW.) Amsterdam ...
Read More »Ogilvy’s Refugee Nation is big One Show winner, McCann New York is top agency
The New York One Show’s Best of Show award has gone to Cross-Platform winner Refugee Nation for Amnesty International from Ogilvy New York. The campaign celebrates 2016’s first Olympics team for refugees. Event organiser One Club CEO Kevin Swanepoel says: ...
Read More »Gunn Report names 2016’s top ad award winners – adam&eveDDB is top agency
The Gunn Report into ad awards for 2016 names BBDO as the Most Awarded Network, adam&eveDDB the Most Awarded Agency (two of the top four are from New Zealand), Burger King’s ‘McWhopper’ Most Awarded Campaign, USA Most Awarded Country, Samsung ...
Read More »D&AD and Advertising Week team to launch new global ‘awards for good’
Britain’s D&AD is teaming with the Advertising Week organisers to launch what they call a “global award show that recognizes companies and brands that are making the world a better place.” Maybe it should be called the loaves and fishes ...
Read More »£40m Cannes Lions adds ‘digital craft’ as the festival just gets bigger and bigger
The Cannes International Festival of Creativity, which rolls (lurches?) on to La Croisette from June 18-25, has announced the runners and riders for this year in terms of prizes and jury chairs. New on the scene is a Digital Craft ...
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